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Jon is Currently Reading

Jon Gill is currently reading

The Myth of Sisyphus

by Albert Camus

bookshelves: deep-fiction, philosophy, currently-reading, 2025, classics

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Dec 19, 2025 09:23AM

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D. Levitt

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— Dec 20, 2025 08:21AM

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Babel

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2025, fantasy-sci-fi

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“The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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“Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

tags: men, ray-bradbury, sin, truth

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“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

tags: science-miracles

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“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education

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“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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